Erik Darling wants you to vote:
One problem I run into regularly is when I’m tuning a query, and I want to keep one of the resulting execution plans available, so I can:
- Compare it after I make some other changes and run the query again
- Do some additional analysis without worrying about accidentally losing the plan
The only way to do that is to save the plan, stick the XML in another tool, or keep opening new query tabs to run things in, where I won’t lose the plan.